Add match. Boom. It ain't THAT easy, but it is possible. They're going to have to stop this nonsense pretty soon...it's like they're trying to kill the airline industry. I would NEVER get on a flight without something to read and listen to. Pretty soon, they'll have to offer free digital radio and video and a full lending-library where you get to keep the book.

"Air travellers leaving the United Kingdom on Thursday faced the strictest security measures in years: iPods, mobile phones, laptops, and even books and magazines were no longer permitted as carry-on items.

In a series of public statements, government officials in London and Washington blamed the new restrictions on a terrorist plot to blow up transatlantic airliners, which has led to at least 24 arrests.

"The terrorists' aim was to smuggle explosives onto aeroplanes in hand luggage and to detonate these in flight," Paul Stephenson, Scotland Yard's deputy commissioner, told reporters."

16. Agreed - in the first hours the last thing the British wanted to do

was slip up and let something on board. Books as such weren't banned - everything was. The less people carried on board, the fewer items had to be inspected. Books are allowed now, but I don't think you'll see people carrying on the kitchen sink as in the past any time soon.

20. I think it is to save time because deciding which books are terrorist

or not is not something that all of the airline employees are going to agree about and even the ones of the government officials who have read some books might not always agree about every one. So this means that a lot of time is taken up trying to decide if the book a person has is terrorist or not and can make the planes late and cost more money because so far none of the security companies have made any equipment that they can just put the book on and have a qualitative readout instead of it being a lot of people having subjective arguments about this or that book.

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